7/30/2010 @ 9:00

7/30/2010

Capital Music Hall
151 George Street
Ottawa, ON K1N 5T5

spectrasonic and punkottawa.com present KELE (of Bloc Party, London indie/electro, Glassnote recs) http://www.iamkele.com/ http://www.myspace.com/iamkele JESSICA 6 (mbrs Antony and the Johnsons/Hercules and Love Affair/Automato, Brooklyn pop/house) http://www.jessica6music.com/ http://www.myspace.com/jessicasix Friday July 30 @ Capital Music Hall (151 George St.) licensed 19+ - 9pm doors - $20 advance tickets available Friday May 7 at 11am at Vertigo Records, all ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.ca or by phone at 613-755-1111 direct ticketing link: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/100044A3B74D7845 facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114225128616215 http://www.spectrasonic.com/ http://www.punkottawa.com/ ----- In 2009, mid-way through the biggest American tour of their career, Kele Okereke and his three Bloc Party alumni agreed that it was time to put a temporary full stop on band matters. A sabbatical was required. As of November, they would spend 12 months apart. It was a mutual decision. This was a major deal, over the course of three platinum records, with a transatlantic portfolio that was the envy of their peers and moving towards a sound that was assimilating the long-armed traditions of the four-piece British guitar band into shapes it had previously not imagined itself contorting into, Bloc Party were peaking. Kele had intended to walk away from music for a year, to spend time catching up with himself. He began his sabbatical learning to kick-box, training hard at the gym and home-making the flat he had just bought, something he refers to as ‘the first grown up thing I had ever done.’ He simply could not leave his creative impulses alone, though. He booked time between these wholesome pursuits in the EMI recording studios at the bottom end of Tottenham Court Road. “It was just me and an engineer. I plugged in synths that I had no idea what they would do. I began programming drum beats, which I had never done before. It was completely back to the drawing board. It was exciting and terrifying. In most cases I sat down, pulled a drum beat out of nowhere and arranged stuff around that. This was as exciting to me as the first time I picked up a guitar”. The title of the record and its opening shot, the sexy call and response meter Walk Tall, sets up the stall for this cheeky, heartfelt, open record. ‘It was about putting something out there that had a sense of defiance. Training to within an inch of his life, using his body as a powerful presentational tool, became key to all this. The Boxer, set for release this June, is marked by both its ambition and its sense of the new. It is a fearless work. “In culture right now any period of music is ripe for the picking. It’s all up for grabs. The effect that Youtube has on the consciousness of a new generation is incredible. In 20 years time, for kids that can’t remember a time before Youtube and that speed of interfacing with every bit of cultural and musical heritage as a natural extension of themselves, well, can you imagine what art they are going to be making? The possibilities for future pop stardom are incredible”. For Kele Okereke, one suspects they start right now. ----- follow us on twitter - http://www.twitter.com/spectrasonic join our facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201823105958 or go to http://www.spectrasonic.com/ for more info on this and other awesome shows